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Son of John Egbert and Margaretta Youngs, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
News Clipping The Toronto Star, March 12, 1945, page 30
The following information on the crew is found on www.lostbomers.co.uk:
F/Sgt. Youngs served on 431 Squadron in Halifax LW572 which was airborne 1523 on July 18, 1944 from their base at Croft to attack railway yards at Vaires. The aircraft crashed 6 km SE of l'Isle-Adam.
The pilot, P/O F. A. Longstaff, survived and was taken Prisoner of War.
F/S Youngs and the other crew members killed are now buried in Boran-sur-Oise Communal Cemetery. They are:
Sgt Ralph S. Cole, age 22, from Montreal, P.Q.
F /O John W. K. Dunn, age 35, from Victoria, B.C.
Sgt Gordon Jackson, age 28, from Toronto, Ont.
P/O Douglas A. Cooper, age 25, from Toronto, Ont.
and RAF Sgt Joseph E. Williams.
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Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
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Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
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Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant William Alonzo Youngs is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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News Clipping The Toronto Star, March 12, 1945, page 30 The following information on the crew is found on www.lostbomers.co.uk: F/Sgt. Youngs served on 431 Squadron in Halifax LW572 which was airborne 1523 on July 18, 1944 from their base at Croft to attack railway yards at Vaires. The aircraft crashed 6 km SE of l'Isle-Adam. The pilot, P/O F. A. Longstaff, survived and was taken Prisoner of War. F/S Youngs and the other crew members killed are now buried in Boran-sur-Oise Communal Cemetery. They are: Sgt Ralph S. Cole, age 22, from Montreal, P.Q. F /O John W. K. Dunn, age 35, from Victoria, B.C. Sgt Gordon Jackson, age 28, from Toronto, Ont. P/O Douglas A. Cooper, age 25, from Toronto, Ont. and RAF Sgt Joseph E. Williams.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Commemorated on:
Page 485 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BORAN-SUR-OISE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Oise, France
Boran sur Oise is a village 36 kilometres south-east of Beauvais and 7 kilometres east-north-east of Persan Beaumont. The BORAN-SUR-OISE COMMUNAL CEMETERY is on the south-west side of the village.
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